MY SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES PINTEREST BOARD ReadWorks.org - FREE nonfiction reading passages and lessons classified by skill and grade level. Lexiled. Added 3/22/13 Primary Sources for Elementary Classrooms - even Kindergarten. Library of Congress. Added 3/13/13. InstaGrok: THE BEST RESEARCH SITE Check it out. Put in any topic and the site will pull up videos, readings, sites for further research, etc. Students write any word in the search box. They get a list of articles to read and videos to watch. Edutopia Project Based Learning with VIDEOS:-)! Larry Ferlazzo's Plan a virtual FIELD TRIP. Great for these budget-conscious times. NC WiseOwl - focused on non commercial information, organized by grade level, provides special tools to help students research more effectively, all photos and sites have citations built in, searchable by lexile, tool provided that teaches students how to narrow their search SCOPE by Scholastic - magazine/student for $, but there's free interactive whiteboard activities, shared reading PDFs, VIDEOS! for science and social studies, digital lessons integrated to the Common Core Teen Ink Today's Best Nonfiction written by teens. LESSONS What Really Matters? What is unfair? Global awareness. Personal discovery of issues about which students care deeply. Keep It Or Junk It - Sort what's important from what's not when reading social studies or science texts. Revolution, Reaction, Reform 4th graders constructing understanding of complex vocabulary. Quick Write, Table Teams, Photos, THINKING! Supporting Older Students in Reading Content Educational Leadership
SOCIAL STUDIES
DPI Social Studies Wiki Top Resources for Aligning Social Studies to Common Core, ASCD AniMaps Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!
53 Social Studies Read Works passages posted 1/13/14 VIDEOS Antique Roadshow - Kindergartners bring in anything older than them! Watch the video. (added 2/2/13) Boatlift And untold story of resilience, the greatest boat rescue occurred on 9/11. Narrated by Tom Hanks. 11 minutes. Flying Over America - very cool video; Disneystyle; take a plane over the US The Kindergarten Social Studies Experience Teacher Channel (added 1/29/13) TCI Transforming Social Studies Instruction This site is written by teachers for teachers. It's filled with videos, suggestions, articles, and lots of visuals to help teachers move their instruction into this century. Stories Change You and Change History: “Novels have helped shape the minds of leaders across history, and thus, have shaped the actual course of history... What story will you try on next?" See the 4-min VIDEO Interactive Notebooks for social studies - examples and explanation
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MY SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES PINTEREST BOARDReadWorks.org - FREE nonfiction reading passages and lessons classified by skill and grade level. Lexiled. Added 3/22/13
Primary Sources for Elementary Classrooms - even Kindergarten. Library of Congress. Added 3/13/13.
InstaGrok: THE BEST RESEARCH SITE Check it out. Put in any topic and the site will pull up videos, readings, sites for further research, etc. Students write any word in the search box. They get a list of articles to read and videos to watch.
Edutopia Project Based Learning with VIDEOS:-)!
Larry Ferlazzo's Plan a virtual FIELD TRIP. Great for these budget-conscious times.
NC WiseOwl - focused on non commercial information, organized by grade level, provides special tools to help students research more effectively, all photos and sites have citations built in, searchable by lexile, tool provided that teaches students how to narrow their search
SCOPE by Scholastic - magazine/student for $, but there's free interactive whiteboard activities, shared reading PDFs, VIDEOS! for science and social studies, digital lessons integrated to the Common Core
Teen Ink Today's Best Nonfiction written by teens.
LESSONS
What Really Matters? What is unfair? Global awareness. Personal discovery of issues about which students care deeply.
Keep It Or Junk It - Sort what's important from what's not when reading social studies or science texts.
Revolution, Reaction, Reform 4th graders constructing understanding of complex vocabulary. Quick Write, Table Teams, Photos, THINKING!
Supporting Older Students in Reading Content Educational Leadership
SOCIAL STUDIES
DPI Social Studies WikiTop Resources for Aligning Social Studies to Common Core, ASCD
AniMaps Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!
53 Social Studies Read Works passages posted 1/13/14
VIDEOS
Antique Roadshow - Kindergartners bring in anything older than them! Watch the video. (added 2/2/13)
Boatlift And untold story of resilience, the greatest boat rescue occurred on 9/11. Narrated by Tom Hanks. 11 minutes.
Flying Over America - very cool video; Disneystyle; take a plane over the US
The Kindergarten Social Studies Experience Teacher Channel (added 1/29/13)
TCI Transforming Social Studies Instruction This site is written by teachers for teachers. It's filled with videos, suggestions, articles, and lots of visuals to help teachers move their instruction into this century.
Stories Change You and Change History: “Novels have helped shape the minds of leaders across history, and thus, have shaped the actual course of history... What story will you try on next?" See the 4-min VIDEO
Interactive Notebooks for social studies - examples and explanation
Links working as of 3/22/13